Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent)

(From our regular correspondent)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. -. 1887.
Already / have reported TO you the eur
rent capital gossip concerning the Cabinet
changes-that Mr.. Lamar will be transla-
ted TO the Supreme Bench, that Postmaster
General Villas is 10 succeed him, and that
Mr.. Dickinson of Michigan will be the lat
ter's successor Still another rumor is that
Mr.. Whitney expects to resign from the
Cabinet unless his health greatly improves
within the next two months, his friends
claiming that a man of the vast wealth and
great social prominence of the present Sec
retary of the Navy, cannot afford TO endan-
ger his existence by further devoting him.
self to the onerous duties incumbent upon
him.
Many New York Democrats We're ex-
tremely solicitous for the President to go TO
his old home ut Buffalo and vote in the late
sa'r
that he did not crafty public expectation
in that respect. But the President had n
good reason for absenting himself,as he had
learned from trustworthy sources, that his
presence ut the polls would have been the
occasion of an undignified and unseemly
demonstration on the part of n club of in-
tensely partisan Republicans, as 1t was
their unpatriotic purpose TO challenge Mr..
Cleveland's right to vote, on the ground
that he is not legal resident of Buffalo.
In view Of this exposed conspiracy, it is
doubtful if Mr.. Cleveland again votes dur
ing his Presidency, and when his motive is
understood, il will be applauded by all un-
biased minds.
Messrs. Carlisle and Randall are both in
the city, and while neither is willing to
take the public into his confidence, through
the medium of the press, it is highly proba
BILE that these great leaders may have an in
formal conference before the meeting of
Congress, with the view of making the two
wings of the Democracy flap together on
the tariff question, in the language of Mr.
Randall during a speech in the Forty ninth
Congress.
The forthcoming report of Secretary Fair
child is awaited with no ordinary degree of
Nv Tic NpAhh, 40 ~ 40 ~
pected that he will take advanced ground
on the questions of the Treasury surplus,
and the silver currency That the Secretary
is laboriousIy and carefully applying him.
self TO the important undertaking that de-
wolves upon him, is evidenced by the fact
that to accomplish it he has for several days
confined himself to the privacy of his home,
in order not to be diverted from his work
by visitors to the Department.
Secretary Lamar in his report, which is
| completed but not yet published, recon-
| mends that the Interstate Commerce Com
| mission be detached from the Interior De
partment and made directly responsible to
Congress or the President for its acts, as at
present the Secretary of the Interior only
officiates in the capacity of disbursing Off
Ger for the Commissioned appearing that
he has no jurisdiction over that body at all.
There is great pressure of business al
the General Land Office in the way of issu-
| ing agricultural patents, 24O0 having been
made out during the past month, and others
| i'm course of preparation will increase the
number to 5000 for the month of November,
which almost outrivals any previous record
The balance of power in the United States
Senate is lodged with the rollicking Rid
dleberger, the Senator from Virginia, who
| holds in the hollow of his hand the political
future of three Democratic claimants to seats
-Messrs. Lucas & Faulkner, of West Vir-
ginia, and Mr.. Turple, of Indiana. Senator
Riddleberger states that he will endeavor
to act as conscientiously in these controver-
sizes as if he were on the Supreme Bench OF
the United States.
The Republican Senate has more than
enough chairmanships to 60 around-there
being forty-seven Senate COMMITTEES to only
thirty eight Republican Senators, and SO it
is likely that the majority party will very
generously bestow the nine surplus places
| on their Democratic brethren.